All You Need to Know About SVG – Tutorials, Articles, Resources

Do you want to learn about SVG? If the answer is yes then you are at the right place. In this round up, we are showcasing all those resources about SVG that help you learn all about SVG. These include tutorials, articles and other resources. With these resources, we aim to provide you all insightful information about SVG images and how they are created so that you can keep yourself up to date with the latest trend.

Here we are showcasing all the important and necessary tutorials, articles, resources, tips and tricks that are being used by experienced web designers. We hope that this collection proves to be the best for you. Let’s have a look at this collection. Enjoy!

SVG Tutorials

Creating Shapes with SVG

Have you tried using the SVG image format? Here is an SVG tutorial to help you delve deeper on how to use this image format to your full advantage.

How to Add Scalable Vector Graphics to Your Web Page

In this article you will learn how to add Scalable Vector Graphics to Your Web Page.

Resolution Independence With SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), one of the most underused technologies in website development today.

Exporting SVG for the web with Adobe Illustrator CC

In this article, the author discusses the best export options to produce quality SVG files for your websites with the smallest file size possible.

Using Inline SVGs With HTML5

It goes without saying that SVG isn't as widely used as many people in the web development community might believe it should be. Setting the debate aside, in this tutorial, you will learn how to use inline SVGs, covering a range of techniques and exploring the interaction between web page and graphic.

Creating a Responsive SVG

In this tutorial, the author demonstrates his method for creating a responsive SVG. (The demonstrations feature Illustrator, but the outcome can be achieved with most vector editing software.)

Convert an EPS Logo to SVG

In this tutorial you will learn how to convert an EPS Logo to an SVG that you can use on the web.

SVG Path Animation with jQuery and Illustrator

In this tutorial you will learn how to build a path animation using a super slick jQuery Plugin called Lazy Line Painter by Cam O’Connell.

Ways to embed a Clickable SVG-Logo into Your Website

In this article, you will see different techniques to embed an SVG-logo, with a link back to the homepage of the site. They are not telling you that one method is better than the other, you will have to choose.

Shape Hover Effect with SVG

In this tutorial you will learn how to recreate the hover effect as seen on The Christmas Experiments website. Using SVG for the shape and Snap.svg for animating it on hover.

Creating a Border Animation Effect with SVG and CSS

The website of Carl Philipe Brenner has some very creative and subtle animations and this tutorial explores how to recreate a border animation effect using CSS transitions on SVG lines.

SVG Drawing Animation

A little experiment that explores the usage of SVG line drawing animations to precede the appearance of graphics or website elements, simulating the loading of them.

SVG ICONS FTW

Despite the growing popularity of SVG, its time around and excellent browser support, we have a lack of good vector icon approaches. It's time to fill this gap and use SVG as icons in our web projects.

Animated SVG Icons with Snap.svg

Using SVGs on websites is becoming easier and easier with great libraries like Snap.svg. This tutorial explores what we can do with it and animates some SVG icons as a practical example.

Animated Checkboxes and Radio Buttons with SVG

By animating an SVG path with JavaScript, we can do many fancy things. Here the author shows you some effects for checkboxes and radio buttons. The idea is to hide the inputs, use pseudo-elements to create a more appealing style and then animate the SVG paths once an input is selected.

Interactive Infographic with SVG and CSS Animations

Learn how to build an interactive animated infographic using SVG, CSS and JavaScript.

How to create & use vector graphics on the web

The web is full of images and most of them are raster graphics like jpeg, png or gif. Those formats are fixed in width / height and don't look good when heavily resized. Not even thinking about high resolution displays, And that's why this tutorial will show you how to handle SVG without Photoshop or Illustrator!

USING SVG

SVG is an image format for vector graphics. It literally means Scalable Vector Graphics. Basically, what you work with in Adobe Illustrator. You can use SVG on the web pretty easily, but there is plenty you should know.

Animated line drawing in SVG

The easiest way to animate SVG is using CSS animations or transitions. The downside is it doesn't work in IE, if you want IE support you'll need to use requestAnimationFrame and update the values frame by frame with script.

Animated SVGs: Custom easing and timing

This chart, and one other animation on Sprout, were initially GIFs. By using animated SVGs instead of GIFs the page size was from 1.6 mb to 389 kb, and the page load time from 8.75 s to 412 ms. That’s a huge difference.

SVG Tools

Batik SVG Toolkit

Batik is a Java-based toolkit for applications or applets that want to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as display, generation or manipulation.

Graphviz

Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. It has important applications in networking, bioinformatics, software engineering, database and web design, machine learning, and in visual interfaces for other technical domains.

Cairo Graphics

Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System (via both Xlib and XCB), Quartz, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL, BeOS, OS/2, and DirectFB.

Inkscape

Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source.

Excellent Examples of SVG Uses

Animated world landmarks re-created in SVG

Adding a third dimension to SVG graphics

Rendering vector graphics in SVG vs Flash

Applying SVG masks over HTML5 video

Deconstructing Trajan columns with SVG

Animated Rube Goldberg machine in SVG

Animated SVG clock

SVG Resources

Rethinking Responsive SVG

Export from Photoshop to SVG

Introduction to SVG Animation

SVG Files: From Illustrator to the Web

Front-end SVG Hacking

How to Use SVG Image Sprites

My SVG workflow, from awkward to simple

Manipulating SVG Icons with CSS

SVG for Scalable Backgrounds

Animating Vectors with SVG

SVG animations for fun and profit

Conclusion

We hope that you found these SVG tutorials, articles and resources helpful for you and that these resources will help you in using SVG in more effective ways for your new projects.

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Jameel Khan is a web graphic designer and has been working in this field for 4 years. He also writes for other blogs and is also the founder member of webdesigncore.com. His biggest passion is blogging and vector illustrations.